Nasserism and the Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Rudy, Andrew and Eric sit down to discuss Egypt from its origins as an independent polity under Mehmed Ali up to the Sadat years, with …
Letter: To Communists and Communist Organizations
Communists in Manchester will be standing in the general election, whenever it is called. We will be standing in Manchester Central on a communist manifesto …
Letter: Why Vote Uncommitted? A Vote for Peace & Justice
This June 4th, New Jersey voters have the bold chance to rebuke President Biden’s support for genocide in Gaza by voting Uncommitted in the state’s …
Labor Notes and Labor’s Next Year
Leland Olds responds to the recent Labor Notes conference with an analysis of the current state of U.S. labor organizing and proposes a syncretic strategy …
Left-Communism, Palestine, and National Liberation
RJ Park critiques the supposed “internationalism” of adherents of the left-communist tendency that reject support for Palestinian national liberation. By and large, Marxists around the …
Letter: On the Occasion of the Death of “the Leading Left Communist in the United States”
Left communism, or ultra-left Marxism, is a form of 20th century radical politics that opposes the ideas and practices of Marxist-Leninists, social democrats, and anarchist …
The Modern Left and the New Right-Wing Radicalism
While right-wing radicalism has grown and taken on new forms, the left today remains stuck in illusions of liberal capitalism as the end of history. …
Escaping the Constitutional Bind with Aziz Rana
Donald and Luke talk with Aziz Rana about his latest book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. Rana …
Letter: A Late Farewell to Pannekoek
On September 15th, 1927, something sudden happened. While returning from a journey originally intended to revive his now ailing health, on the return back from …
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None …
Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Abstract Negativity
Yanis Iqbal breaks down Slavoj Žižek’s philosophical narrative of abstract negativity, revealing it to be politically disabling and epistemologically reductive. Almandrade, The value and the …
The Making of a Working Class Revolutionary: an Interview with Jerome Scott
We sit down with Jerome Scott, former Detroit Auto worker and founding member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers to learn about Black working-class …
Letter: The Jewish State Organization
Note: Graphic content ahead. We shall never be rough and heartless when it is not necessary, that is clear. We Germans, who are the only …
Towards a Marxist Stance on Electoralism
Assessing the foundational Marxist canon and the contemporary US landscape, Bluebird argues for strategic participation in Bourgeois elections to advance a revolutionary agenda and the …